Man’s Chronic Pain Disappears After Vigorous, Cold-Water Swim

Those polar plunge nuts—you know, the people who strip to their skivvies in February and jump into freezing water—might be on to something.

According to doctors from the United Kingdom, a 28-year-old man who had been complaining of persistent, post-operative pain was cured after jumping into incredibly cold water for a vigorous 60-second, intense swim. Roughly two months prior to his swim, the man had undergone an endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy procedure to treat his severe facial blus